On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 21:50, Ray Russell Reese III wrote:
> Then there are those ebuilds that are a few hundred lines (or gasp more)
> of bash script that would benefit from something more structured. What
> that something is I honestly don't know. But at least with the plug-able
> ebuild format, we could retain compatibility with the current ebuilds,
> and slowly phase them into something more appropriate.

Yes, we will need to gracefully transition to the new format over time.

Regards,

Daniel